Women's cricket
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Women's cricket is the form of the team sport of cricket that is played by women.
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[edit] History
Women's cricket has a long history and was first reported in The Reading Mercury on 26 July 1745.
See main article at : History of women's cricket
[edit] Women's Test cricket
Women's Test cricket has been played since December 1934. Current international women's cricket teams include ten Test teams, as follows:
Note that Bangladesh and Zimbabwe do not play women's Test cricket although they do have men's teams, and that Ireland and the Netherlands are Test nations in women's cricket but not in the men's game.
[edit] Women's ODI cricket
Women's One-day Internationals have been played since 1973. The first Women's Cricket World Cup competition was held in 1973, two years before the first men's Cricket World Cup. The following women's cricket teams have fielded one-day international sides but do not play Test cricket:
The following sides competed in the first women's world cup, but no longer field sides at this level.
- International XI
- Jamaica
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Young England
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Cricinfo Women
- Cricketwoman portal
- ICC Women's Cricket
- A History of Women's cricket
- Quatt CC Ladies
- Stoke d'Abernon Cricket Club Womens Colts, Surrey
| International Women's cricket |
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| International forms |
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Women's Test cricket | Women's One-day International | Women's Twenty20 |
| Forms of cricket | |
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| International: Test cricket | One-day International | Twenty20 | Hong Kong International Cricket Sixes | Women's cricket | |
| Other: First-class cricket | Limited overs cricket | List A cricket | Club cricket | |
| Variations: Indoor cricket | French cricket | Backyard cricket | Kwik cricket | Catchy Shubby Cricket | Blind cricket | Kilikiti | Short form cricket |
